Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-03-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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recorded at Keyport, n. J.
-Washington's new 81 ,0O0, 900 hotel
is to be called the Windsor.
Last year !. .S02 locomotives were
constructed in the United States.
People IN Barber county, Kan, will
cultivate Russian sunhowers for fuel.
-Cabbages are being shipped from
Redwood City on the Pacific coast to
Chicago.
"A brook trout, just dead at Lafay-
ette, n. Y, was undoubtedly thirty-six
years old.
Harvard College library is reported
TO contain 240. 800 volumes and 233, 600
pamphlets
The Etruria's last trip was made
at an average speed of 10 knots, or y
statute miles per hour,
-Woodite is a new material, said to
be non-infammable, iDpervious to wa
ter and as elastic as rubber.
Germany has %, 600 miles of under
ground telegraph wires and France
1900, all in successful operation.
japanese orange trees are being in.
trOduced INTO California. They will
give a new and excellent variety of
| fruit.
More than p, ,0O0, 600 feet Of Ium-
ber has been used in the construction
of snow sheds on the Northern Pacific
road.
Asphalt is Stated to have been dis
covered IN Morgan county, Ala. 1t Is
said to be the only large deposit in the
United States.
J 'Eyesology" is now chronicled as
fashions latest fad, and il means the
telling Of character from the color Of
the eyes.
AT Fort Keogh, Montana, a varia-
ton of ninety degrees in the tempera-
ture is said to Lave occurred within
twenty-four hours.
| "A syndicate of Amsterdam bankers
has purchased go square miles of TIM
Der land in western FLORIDA on which
to found a colony of Hollanders.
A new pocket camera has been In
vented. 1t is enclosed in an ordinary
silver watch case and is SAID TO do very
good work by the dry-plate process.
AT an inquest held not long ago at
Bath, Eng, respecting the death Of an
old lady, it was found that she had
died from the results of wasp sting.
There are is, ,OOOOperatIyes engaged
in the shirt, cuff aud collar trade Of
Troy, n. Y, and the amount of their
wages for a year amounts to nearly
5000, GOO.
| Natural gas, 1t Is asserted, was
used In China long ago in the mechanic
arts, being conveyed from natural wells
IN bamboo pipes and consumed by the
aid Of terra Gotta burners.
The Journal OF C0HlInsrcs's annual
trade review for 1856 shows the value
of the productions of California for TIE
year were S202, ,0O0, 900, equal to 500
for every man, woman and child IN the
State.
"A recent storm III Geneva, Italy,
damaged the telephone system there TO
the extent of 500, 600, according to a
statement of the director OF tele-
paones," who ordered all the Offices
temporarily closed.
The people OF Sea Glrt. Y. J., hay-
ing teen refused by Congress sac, 600
for light house at Squan Inlet, now
propose to apply for S10O,000 for the
same purpose. They think their former
application was too small.
Massachusetts is said by local
naturalist to have fifteen indigenous
species OF snakes, Of which only the
rattlesnake and eoPperllead are poison
Gus. Others are ferOciOus and will bite,
but no i'll results follow the wound.
Pail Mall is 4 street in London
named from the French game of paIlle
maille, formerly played there. During
the last century it contained many tay-
erns, The street was inelOsed about
1890, and was fashionable prone
made.
Mrs. John C. Miller, of Keysville,
No., has ship biscuit which, it is said,
was brought from England in 1880,
and which has been handed down from
generation to generation. 1t is kept
in glass bottle, and IS as hard as q
stone.
The Latin School of Boston Is an
ancient school foundation, and IS the
Oldest institution of the Kind in Amer
ica. 1t originated in 1884 BENJAMIN
Franklin, Sam Adams, John Hancock,
Cotton Mather and other celebrities Of
early days have been pupils Of this
school.
"A vessel with cargo of forty-four
arrived recently at Galveston.
Texas This is the second cargo with
IN twelve months. The birds are for
ostrich farms in California, where this
peculiar industry is coming into favor.
The birds came from Natal, South
Africa.
The first copy OF the original edi-
tion OF "The Letters of Columbus" in
Latin, printed in 1893, the year after
the discovery of America, was recently
sold IN Cologne for 6600 marks (Sl6jOl,
said to be the highest price ever paid
for single book IN Germany.
"A new form of railway seat spring
has been devised in England and is
highly spoken of. The entire seat is
carried on colled spring of peculiar
form. and Is free to move IN all direc-
tions, so that every jerk and oscillation
which the car can receive is perfectly
taken up.
The heights of different monarchs
is thus given: The Emperor of China
is only five feet tall; the Emperor VIII
liam or Germany is the talIest, being
Just SIX feet: Prince Albert of Germany,
nephew of the Emperor, is six feet six
inches tall; the Emperor of Russia is
nearly six feet.
in Bavaria 1t is not good form for
a lady to shake hands with gentleman
until she is very well acquainted with
him, and no unmarried woman is al
lowed to speak on the street to any of
her friends of the opposite sex, no mat
ter how well she may know them.
A nep method Of securing veneer to
its base consists in spreading glue or
other adhesive matter between the
veneer and the base, passing the two
PARTS under a heated roller to